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    Thomas Wheeler

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    • 10th Great-grandfather of Harry Chapin — 13th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 4298 
    • Mother:
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    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1591 
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    • Death Date:
    • from 5 May 1654 to 23 Aug 1654 
    • Death Location:
    • Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • 5 May 1613 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England 
    • Children:

    • Hannah Wheeler (Ahnentafel No:2149 )

      William Wheeler

      Thomas Wheeler

      John Wheeler

      Sarah Wheeler

    • Notes: 
    • Thomas Wheeler mentions in his will dated 16 JAN 1653/4 his brother who is also name Thomas. Their father is believed to have had two wives so the brothers were probably half-brothers.

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  • Sources for Thomas Wheeler

    • 6 Andrews, Henry Porter, The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. 1635-9, Vol. 1, Saratoga Springs: G. W. Ball, Book and Job Printer (1893), 161-162.
    • 7 Bullard, Edgar J., Bennett and Allied Families: Addenda to Bullard and Allied Familes, Detroit, Michigan: E. J. Bullard (1931), 4.
    • 8 Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Family History of Central New York: A Record of the Achievements of Her People . . ., Vol. 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1912), 108.
    • 9 Cutter, William Richard, ed., Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut: A Record of the Achievements of . . ., Vol. 3, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1911), 1423.
    • 10 Finch, Jessie Howell, The Ancestral Lines of Chester Everts Howell, 1867-1949, of Elmira, New York, U.S.A., n. p.: n. p. (1949), 22, 29.
    • 11 Jacobus, Donald Lines, ed., The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and his Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, Woodstock, Vermont: N. Grier Parke, II (1960), 47, 52-54.
    • 12 Torrey, Frederic C., The Ancestors and Descendants of Humphrey Nichols of Newark, New Jersey and of His Brothers and Sisters, Lakehurst, New Jersey: Unknown (1917), Pedigree chart between pages 10 and 11.
    • 13 Wheeler, Albert Gallatin, Jr., The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America, Boston, Massachusetts: American College of Genealogy (1914), 200.

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